Saturday, 17 May 2014

Habit - the Devil-you-know.

The following article has been
added to from the point of view of a Turbo Charged Reader.

As a slow reader I read the
article from top to bottom taking in every single word. M'reen

I understand what is being said
and how it might benefit me and if I could adopt the practices recommended and
then I get on with my day and as those thoughts are not established they wither away like
un-watered seedlings.

As a TCR I take the full
article into my innermind in a couple of seconds after first preparing my body and mind to accomplish this natural task. I have instructed my mind to filter
out and retainwhat is important to my purpose at this time. This is to
highlight how the TCR tuition programme is designed to avoid the problems and
enhance the benefits of habit and willpower. Next time I access this written
information from my innermind store I might want an entirely different outcome/purpose.

You will note that the
information that serves my purpose (in black) is only a small percentage of the
whole and that that percentage would be easily reduced as I’ve left some for
your understanding.

Therefore I don’t need to waste
the time and (draining) energy to ‘take in’ and retain this superfluous information.
Generally only 4-11% of a text is relevant the rest being supportive material
or bumph.

At the end of the article I
shall itemise how TCR achieves these aims – but will you still have the time to
slow read? If not – then jump straight to the end of this article.

“If you conquer yourself, then
you conquer the world” Paulo Coelho

It’s true that you can’t change
other people, but you can change yourself - by taking control. Better still,
self-control is a proven and significant key to success. Let’s see how
you can develop your own self-control even further, through
understanding and using two key ingredients: willpower and habit – providing
an incredible way to free yourself, and be more successful at the same time. Many of us are
constrained by our habits and a certain degree of lack of self control. Whether it’s in the realms of
actively exercising regularly, resisting another chocolate bar, the way
we deal with emails, or high level decision-making, better self-control
can boost our productivity, improve our health, make us more money, and even
lengthen our lives! Utilising self-control means
realizing and displaying your inner power – whereas lack of self-control is
a weakness.

If you want to succeed –
take control of your self control! There is a direct connection
between self-control and success, as extensive long-term research proves, and using
this knowledge to your advantage can turbo charge your own success.

In the ’60s, Mischel,
a sociologist, conducted an experiment to see if young children could resist
instant gratification. He offered them the choice of having one marshmallow
now, or two marshmallows
if they could wait 15 minutes. Many chose instant gratification rather than
exerting the willpower to wait. Years later, he tracked down some of the
children, and discovered something startling. Those with high self-control –
those who had held out for two marshmallows – grew into healthier, happier and
wealthier adults. Those with low willpower did less well academically (despite
having similar IQs). They were more likely to be in low-paying jobs, have fewer savings,
were more overweight, more likely to have drug or alcohol problems, and had difficulty
maintaining relationships. They were also almost 400% more likely to have a criminal
conviction. These results were
confirmed by a similar experiment in New Zealand reported by psychologist Roy
F. Baumeister, who concluded that "Willpower is one of the most important
predictors of success in life."

Where are you good at
exerting self-control? Where - or when - does your willpower fail you?

Here are 4 ideas to help
boost your understanding and practice of self-control, willpower and habit - and therefore
take your success to another level:

1.Treat Willpower Like a Muscle
Willpower - the ability to resist temptation and restrain our impulses - is the
most important factor in achieving a successful and happy life. It is more
significant than money, intelligence, looks, or background. It helps to
consider that willpower is like a muscle that can be trained and
strengthened with practice and improved over time. Even exercising small acts of
willpower, like sitting up straight, can pay off by reinforcing
longer-term self-control in other activities. Also like a muscle, willpower
can get tired if you overuse it. Exercising willpower, making choices or decisions and
taking the initiative, all use up the same sort of energy. The more
decisions we make, the weaker our willpower can become. Willpower is
also similar to a muscle, in that when its strength depletes, it can be revived
with glucose - as has been evidenced in research. As we all know, a sugar rush
is not a good option, so it’s best to eat healthy food regularly to maintain
blood sugar levels. Sleeping and eating well - planning for the
slow-release burning of healthy calories - are most important. The impact of this
phenomenon can have extreme consequences. A famous Israeli study in 2011,
discovered that judges making decisions whether or not to grant parole did so
early in the morning, in roughly 65% of cases after lunch, and hardly ever just
before. Research shows that
self-control has a physical basis and is affected by eating and sleeping - and
that significant decisions you make can vary depending on whether they’re made
in the morning or evening, and
before or after a snack. What changes will you
make to develop your willpower muscle?

What changes do you need to make, to prevent your willpower muscle from tiring?

2.Be Aware of Decision fatigueMaking decisions can actually exhaust your ‘stores’ of willpower. Psychologist Roy F Baumeister’s practical experiments asked people to make
small decisions, followed by tests of willpower (which proved to be weakened).
This demonstrated that there is a finite store of mental energy for exerting
self-control. In essence, making choices saps willpower - a condition termed ‘decision
fatigue’. Use this knowledge to
help you conserve your own self-control and use it most effectively. Resistance to making
decisions arises from a fear of reducing options. To those decision-weary judges in the
Israeli research, denying parole is easier - it maintains the status quo
and
prevents a potentially risky parolee committing crime again -
but it also leaves more options open: the judge can
still release the prisoner at a future date. This is not necessarily the best
option - just the easiest and
safest.Better to make good decisions
with a fresh mind, now that we know the effects. Where there are
fewer decisions to be made, there is less decision fatigue. These days, there are so many choices to make, especially in the working
day. It’s
easy to underestimate just how tiring it is to make any kind of decision -
whether big or small, they all add up. Choosing what to have for breakfast,
which task to do first, how much to spend - all deplete willpower. The
cumulative effect can pay its toll. When willpower weakens (or is used up) our
impulses to drink, eat, spend, and say silly things are stronger. And like the
depleted parole judges, we become inclined to take the easiest option, even
though that may not be the best choice.

“The best decision makers,” Baumeister
says, “are the ones who know when not to trust themselves.”

Baumeister’s studies show that
people with the best self-control are those who structure their lives in order
to conserve their willpower. They don’t fill their days with
back-to-back meetings. They maintain habits
that eliminate too many choices. Zuckerberg, inventor of Facebook, wears the
same outfit every day. President Obama wears either a blue or grey suit. Instead of making a decision each morning
whether or not to exercise, successful people make ongoing arrangements to
exercise with somebody else. Instead of using up their willpower on
trivial choices, they conserve it for important decisions and emergencies.Planning
for all decisions in advance - or eliminating the need to make any - is a great
way to keep things - and yourself - under control.So think and plan ahead, and
set up systems that will make things easy for you.What changes will you
make to reduce decision fatigue? How far can you go in creating a personal system
to eliminate decision making and to automate all aspects of your life?

3. Understand The Power of
Habit
Willpower alone is not enough. It’s hard to maintain, because it can become
exhausted, especially when the pressure is on. Habits, however, are automatic
and come as naturally as breathing.We need to make changes that
are long-lasting - and establish good habits that become a way of life. Most choices we make might feel like the result of thoughtful
decision-making,but they're not:
they're habits. In time, each of our decisions - about the food we eat, what we
say to our children each evening, and how frequently we exercise - all have a
huge impact on our health, productivity, wealth, and happiness in the longer
term.

Establishing good habits in
these areas will help you to operate well in all conditions -dispensing with the need to resort to willpower, while
still succeeding in maintaining self-control.If we can lower the
barriers to taking action on positive things, we can begin to form good habits. If we put up barriers
to negative activities, we can break any bad habits. At the core of every
habit is a neurological loop with three parts: a cue, a routine, and a reward. Let’s use the example
of developing a habit to go running each morning. Choose a simple cue
(eg - getting out of bed), establish a routine that is triggered by that cue
(lacing up your trainers or always going for a 3 mile run at 5am) and think of
the reward (endorphin rush). Apply this principle
to other behaviours and habits in your life, and use them to create better
ones. Once you're aware of how your habit works, and can recognize the cues and
rewards, you're on the way to
changing it - for the better.

What good habits will you
establish?
How will you put them into action?

4.Use The 20 second rule
Because our willpower is limited, lasting change might seem impossible to
achieve. And when it fails, we fall back into old habits and take the path of
least resistance. Achor lists a very powerful tool in his book
The Happiness Advantage called the 20-second rule. This principle shows how we
can re-route the path of least resistance and replace bad habits with good ones. It is
very easy to use: identify the habits that you want to lose and make it 20
seconds more difficult to do them. Addicted to
cigarettes? Leave them upstairs or in the car, where they’re not so easily
accessed. Lock up the alcohol
and add an additional 20 seconds to the task by keeping the keys at the other side
of the house (or don’t buy any, turning it into the 20-minute rule, by the time
you’ve nipped to the off-licence).
Want to escape work in the evening? Leave the smartphone and laptop in the furthest room
(or at the office!). The 20-second rule
also works in developing new, good habits. If you want to exercise, make it 20
seconds easier: lay out your clothes the night before. Even better – go to
sleep in your gym clothes! If you want to make a habit of prioritising your
to-do list each day, keep it clearly visible on your desktop, rather than
having to pull it up or look for it. Making things easier reduces the amount of willpower it takes
to do it, thereby increasing your success. When you make your
bad habit harder to do while making the good habit easier, you are much more
likely to take the easy route. It’s been proven by research that we will even
do things that are less satisfying if it’s easier.Just because we know the
right thing to do, we don’t automatically do it. Plan ahead, anticipating your
needs, and aim to make things accessible and easy to do.

Always make your vice
at least 20 seconds away, while making your virtue immediately available. So use the 20-Second
Rule.

Create barriers to
habits you want to resist, and make it easy for the desired ones. Where will you use
the 20 second rule

To address bad
habits?
To develop good habits?

With all this knowledge,
you can use your own self-control to supercharge your ability to succeed.

In brief, some top self control
tips are:

Develop your self-control
system – and systematise your life.
Develop and maintain good habits and routines to take the strain off your
willpower.
Plan in advance, to make things easier.
Exercise your self-control regularly in small ways.
Learn to recognise signs that your willpower may be getting depleted.
Sleep well and eat good food regularly.
Don’t do too much at once.

Since self-control is
essential to your success, it’s too important for it to be out of control.

Mastery is much easier when
you understand how you work – and take action to make yourself even better!

*better self-control can boost
our productivity, improve our health, make us more money,

and even lengthen our lives!

*to succeed – take control of
your self control!

*There is a direct connection
between self-control and success

*using this knowledge to your
advantage can turbo charge your own success.

As a Turbo Charged Reader,
each step has powerful and effective MP3(+)s that deal with the stresses of
life and these MP3(+)s are yours to use forever and, also, you are taught how to use these skills without
an electronic devise. I think that the operative words above are ’inner power’
and that is exactly what these MP3(+)s are designed to release so that you can
use these skills to your advantage and turbo charge your own success.

*Willpower - the ability to resist temptation and restrain
our impulses - is the most important factor in achieving a successful and happy
life

*understanding and using
willpower and habit – providing an incredible way to free yourself,

and be more successful at the
same time

*Where - or when - does your
willpower fail you?

*Willpower can be trained and
strengthened with practice and improved over time.

*Willpower can get tired if you
overuse it

*The more decisions we make, the
weaker our willpower can become.

*So think and plan ahead, and
set up systems that will make things easy for you.

As a hypnotherapist we never
have enquiries from people who claim to have far too much will power to be ‘put
under’ as they are utterly exhausted as they try to control every aspect of
their lives
and can’t cope with ‘someone else messing with that control’.

Sorry, I couldn’t not put in
that both those ideas are the person’s and have no part in hypnotherapy.

However, I didn’t realise
that a complexity of small decisions were gradually eroding your energy.

I’m sure that there have been
times when you’ve felt so tired or ill that you just want someone else
to make
a simple decision – I know I have.

With Turbo Charged Reading
decisions have to be made but they incremental and are strategically placed throughout the progression. Also there is a clear formula for making these
decisions
and that is your purpose at this particular point in your TCR
progression.

The point of making these planning
decisions is in fact to avoid wasting time and effort,

to utilise your time
efficiently and to make sure that you get just what you want from the text

right now leaving the rest in
storage for future access.

Oh, and you can discuss at a
general level a 2-300 page non-fiction book in half an hour

as opposed to a great many
hours – and of course you remember what you’ve read.

Habit

*Many of us are constrained by
our habits and a certain degree of lack of self control.

I describe this as the
Devil-we-know and along with lack of confidence, procrastination
and
unrealistic expectations plus your personal gremlins these form the principal
reasons
why someone may not complete the course that they have not only
purchased with money
but more importantly purchased with expectations as to how
their life is going to improve significantly.

I can confess to succumbing
to the Devil-you-know and procrastination, ooops and unrealistic expectations.

*the way we deal with emails, You deal with emails, the morning news or memos initially in exactly
the same way as
you would TCR War and Peace so you would use your time efficiently
and be more
informed that the average bear.

*Habits, however, are automatic
and come as naturally as breathing.

It is because habits are so
natural that I have spent a lot of time and effort producing the material

in three formats, the written
word, a copy of the written word as an MP3(notes) and a re-enforcer

of that lesson as an MP3(+)
and these (+)s use the focussed learning state which is rather like

Turbo Charged Reading for the ears.

*We need to make changes that
are long-lasting - and establish good habits that become a way

of life. Turbo Charged
Reading is a formula that is repeated until it becomes your natural way of
reading. My first proof of this was that I naturally turned the pages of books
in the TCR way J

*Develop and maintain good
habits and routines to take the strain off your willpower.

Again, the TCR formula or
plan breaks the reading and recall into a simple step process.*Plan in
advance, to make things easier. That is the purpose of purpose at each
step of the way.*Sleep
well and eat good food regularly.
*Don’t do too much at once. One guy poured 20,000 pages into his
innermind in a week,

30 book a day is not unknown
etc. You are not actually ‘working’ or stressing as once you’ve set your
purpose the rest happens automatically as you are using your body and energy
systems naturally.

*Since self-control is essential
to your success, it’s too important for it to be out of control.

Moving from your comfort zone
of, 'I’ve managed so far in life slow reading' to having time to what you enjoy in
life after achieving more from your reading is, actually, a large habit to overcome for some.

Hence the MP3(+)s.

*Mastery is much easier when you
understand how you work – and take action to make yourself even better! Yes,
it’s up to you.

*sitting up straight, can pay
off by reinforcing longer-term self-control in other activities.

Sitting correctly helps to
oxygenate your spine and brain, you and your muscles are less tired.

*planning for the slow-release
burning of healthy calories - are most important.

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